LAKEVILLE — As they gear up for site visits to the workplaces of four finalists for Freetown-Lakeville school superintendent, members of the Regional School Committee are doing their homework.

The committee is drawing up a series of questions that will be asked of school personnel, municipal employees and district residents during the site visits to obtain more information about the candidates.

A minimum of two School Committee members will attend each site visit and report their findings to the entire board at its next meeting, Feb. 6.

After two days of public interviews, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the committee decided to move forward with all four finalists.

Site visits are being planned for Westport Superintendent Carlos Colley, educational consultant Christopher Parker of Westport, Monson Director of Curriculum and Instruction Linda Carrier and Franklin, N.H., Superintendent Maureen Ward at their current places of employment. The visits are scheduled to begin on Jan. 29 and conclude Feb. 4.

Some members of the committee were in favor of eliminating some of the finalists following the conclusion of the interview process Wednesday night.

Board members John Oliveiri and David Davenport voiced a desire to narrow the field to try to expedite the decision-making process, while Robert Clark and Committee Chairman David Goodfellow said they preferred to conduct site visits on each of the finalists before making a decision.

"I think we have a piece of the picture, not the entire picture," said Goodfellow. "An important piece is the site visit. You can garner a great deal of information from them, possibly change your mind about a candidate."

Oliveiri countered that if a candidate did not receive enough support from the board following the in-person interview, there was no sense in conducting a site visit.

Attorney Glenn Koocher from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, who is assisting Freetown-Lakeville with its superintendent search, recommended conducting a straw poll in an attempt to see where each board member stood.

Carrier was the lone candidate to receive support from each member of the eight-person board.

Parker and Ward received five votes apiece and Colley was selected by four members.

Goodfellow and Clark were the only committee members to vote for all four candidates, while everyone else selected at least two.

Oliveiri filed a motion to narrow the field to three but the measure failed.

With a one vote differential between the second and fourth finalist, the committee decided to conduct site visits on all four candidates.

"There's not a big difference in the vote totals," said School Committee member Derek Gracia. "We've got to move forward with all four."

The selection process will also include guided tours of the Freetown-Lakeville schools by interim Superintendent Jessica Huizenga along with an opportunity for the candidates to meet with school staff and community leaders.

It was unclear how many candidates will be brought in for that round of the search.

A public forum at which Freetown and Lakeville residents will have an opportunity to ask questions of the finalists has been postponed. It had been tentatively scheduled for next week.

The School Committee previously expressed a desire to have a decision made in February. The new superintendent is scheduled to take over the reins on July 1.